The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-17
HOT WEATHER COMFORT.

Baths are building everywhere around
town A new one, which will soon be
thrown open, is under the Produce Ex-
change and it is in many respects one of
the most costly bathing places in the world.
Several hundred thousand dollars have al
ready been spent on it. Salt water is car
red directly from the, bay and is kept run
ming through the bath constantly. There
are rooms where thirty attendants are at
hand to scrub, rub, douse with alcohol the
festive bathers. The main tank is sixty feet
one way by fifty feet the other, and runs in
depth from five to nine feet
All along the water front, both in the
East and North river, the public baths are
now open, and in many places there are
baths established as business ventures in
competition to them. Baths of this descrip-
ton are made of wood, and are nothing
more or less than huge hollow squares with
floor grating that keeps the bathers from
going too deep They are floated near some
pier and bathing suits, together with the
privilege of swimming for an hour, cost from
dc. to 25c. All sorts and conditions Of men,
boys and children attend them.
Certain hours are set aside for the bathers
Of the gentler sex They are forced to wear
suits of regulation pattern, and it is neces-
Sary to be very strict in the matter, for the
ealing their charms when men are not
about. Some of them swim in fashion
that would astonish the professionals, and
they dive off the ratings and play all sorts of
Pranks with each other, precisely as school
6oySdo remember once having look at a
oath when it was occupied exclusively by
women. A man was going to buy the place
and went with him to look at it. He went
over the establishment while | stared at the
FATHERS with unremitting industry. 1t was
IN one OF the poor wards of the town, and
moStof the girls were factory operatives
ana shop employees. Many of them had
brought Old calico wrappers with them to
serve as bathing suits, but the restrictions
VI the bath would not permit this, and they
were forced to wear more suitable costumes
This display of magnifcently proportional
IsureS and graceful outlines would have
WiVen Fifth avenue mad with envy.
" a path that caused a great deal of talk in
T Eew York at one time was at the foot of
EaSV One Hundred and Sixteenth street.
t ilefe was beach there and an enormous
patllng pavilion, with accommodations for
SEyeral hundred people. The water was
tIequented almost altogether by women,
Out the balconies that commanded
view OF the beach were thronged con-
sanity ny men. The proper restrictions
W %G ~ not observed as to costumes, and many
Grr rneln We're exceedingly risky. 1t was
tturlhg two summers the fashion among men
%Igo up there and look at the pretty Har
t Jni glrlS at their bath. Everybody saw
u ,~aI u would only be a question of time
o tne outbreak came. It arrived with
Co ausn Inc proprietor was arrested on the
girill OF several of the parents of small
sn5 mass of unsavory details exposed
t saG lne beach abandoned. The whole es-
On rotiES d burned down, suspicion resting
Tbo eIe mother of one of the injured girls.
a a1S , whole place formed an extraordinary
yo Nan WA w chapter in the criminal history of
sy ," ork, and it was astounding that the
ma giJSue was delayed so long. Nothing re-
tbe o yown except the beach, and over that
"ey are now building gas works.